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Lee T
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Lee T asked in SportsAuto RacingNASCAR · 1 decade ago

Does anybody ever see North Wilkesboro beening placed on the schedule again?

I sure hope so that place was great, what are your thoughts????

Update:

know it all, you mean to tell me that there is no chance of getting the track raceable again if Nascar decided to go there again Rockingham was closed for several years they did a face lift on the track and now ARCA runs there every year.

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  • Jay
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    1 decade ago
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    The top two divisions of Nascar will never go back to North Wilkesboro, ever. It's just nice to see racing returning to N. Wilkesboro with several events scheduled for 2010 including a Kimmel street stock enduro race and a USAR procup event. The Nascar Cup series is a national series now and will look into areas that don't currently have a Nascar event nearby. It would be nice to see a truck series event there or at the Rock, but I don't see that happening either. Can't see any reason to not hold a truck race at Rockingham.

  • 1 decade ago

    As long as dang ole money bags Bruton Smith still owns it, No. It would be cool to see the track fixed up a bit, heck even a truck race. But its a Nascar dinosaur. I saw great racing here back in the day. But Nascar is too dang Hollywood this day and time to allow this race track back on the schedule. I'm sure it would take way to much money to fix it up. Heck I want The Rock back also. Its just sad that new comers to Nascar will never have a chance to see this track in action.

    Go Dale Jr..Bring it on in 2010

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    is this even a serious question? they haven't held a race there since the bedrock 500. jeff gordonstone beat dale earnrock jr. on the last lap.

    http://www.savethespeedway.net/photos/246.jpg

    http://www.savethespeedway.net/photos/242.jpg

    http://www.savethespeedway.net/photos/249.jpg

    http://www.savethespeedway.net/photos/244.jpg

    http://www.savethespeedway.net/photos/263.jpg

    http://www.savethespeedway.net/photos/268.jpg

    http://www.savethespeedway.net/photos/266.jpg

    does this look like a place that's ready to host a sprint cup race?

    don't get me wrong, i love the place. i became a NASCAR fan while i was living in north carolina. i would encourage any NASCAR fan to visit the speedway for history and nostalgias sake. but come on, did you really ask that question?

    i .love both tracks dude, although unfortunately i never made it to a cup race at wilkesboro. some of the funnest weekends of my life were spent camping at rockingham on race weekend. but here's the thing. #1, rockingham is a better track than wilkesboro. i mean, did you see the pics? they don't even have fixed seats there, they have those fold up chairs like they used to use in an elementery school gym. and #2, ARCA is not NASCAR, and it's a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNG way from the sprint cup series. comparing an ARCA race to a cup race is like comparing a little leauge game to a new york yankees game. dude, wilkesboro is a part of NASCAR history, small little mountain towns like that are what made NASCAR what it is today. but the sport has simply outgrown wilkesboro and rockingham, and there's no turning back now. i think it was will rogers who said "you can never go home again".

    here, have a star for your question anyway. even though technically it was a dumb question (no offense) you made me feel really nostalgic looking at those pics of a bygone era.

  • 1 decade ago

    I doubt the Cup Series would ever return there. I'm not even sure if the track has even held a race there since the last Cup event in 1996, but I think it's a safe bet that they have not, considering the track today is covered with the same Winston Cup stickers from the late 90's.

    Source(s): Look at the pictures someone posted earlier in this thread.
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  • 1 decade ago

    As long as Bruton Smith is a track owner in NASCAR, no, North Wilkesboro will never be back on the schedule. He'll purchase it to be sure his each of his tracks gets 2 race dates.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No. Like Rockingham it had great racing but suffered from poor attendance. They were forced to compete for fans with several other races in the same area.

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't know what beening is, but no, I don't think NW will come back to Nascar. Maybe the ARCA series, but not any of the top 3 series.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    you will desire to be heavily addicted to crack or another style of recommendations changing drug to think of anybody of your solutions may well be taken heavily. I even have been going to races as a results of fact the early 70's while as an adolescent ager my friends and that i on the time could climb the hill between turns 3 and four and hop over the wall and walk down the track into the infield. of direction you will desire to no longer try this on the instant as a results of protection besides as a results of fact the fencing, yet i could choose for to be certain a sort of tracks come back on the schedule, preferaably rockingham, as a results of banking. As gfar as North Wilkesboro short flat track without banking, I say depart it off the schedule and return rockingham to the schedule using between the dated from between the boring flat tracks without banking in any respect. the flat tracks are just so boring and boring. There are alot of short flat tracks on schedule now, yet I cant think of of them now. Beause of the extensive seating attainable at texas and sales that track brings in, it aint gonna ensue besides. My vote is to do away with chicagoland or any of the boring no banking short tracks, and positioned across returned lots of the sturdy previous racing background and re upload rockingham. It develop into this style of great track and that i enjoyed going there. Im from charlotte and constantly could bypass there. while they eradicated darlingtons the two dated i develop into eally piseed, yet luckily they delivered a sort of dates returned. could advantageous be excited in the event that they could do the comparable to rockingham. stranger issues have handed off. merely my opinion besides

  • 1 decade ago

    No. The place is a mess and it's just too small to host a NASCAR event any more. Not even a truck race.

  • 1 decade ago

    I would really love to see that, but I'm just not to sure that it will ever happen. I would love to see some of those old school semi-short tracks come back myself.

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